Lord Sainsbury of Turville: The agricultural minimum wage is the responsibility of the Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs.
	However we have offered to work with the governments of all the new member states, to prepare bi-lingual "know before you go" leaflets for migrant workers seeking temporary work, giving advice on questions to ask before leaving the country and on legal protections offered to workers including details of the national minimum wage and agricultural minimum wage and the relevant helpline numbers.
	To date we have produced leaflets in partnership with the Portuguese, Polish and Lithuanian governments and are still in talks with other governments. These benefited from input from the TUC, the CBI and other stakeholders and have been distributed widely in both the workers' home countries and the UK, for example via citizens advice bureaux. In Poland, for example, they have been publicised on television and our embassy and the Polish authorities have worked hard to distribute them via job centres, recruitment fairs and other channels. The text of the leaflets is also available on the DTI website www.dti.gov.uk/er/agency/migrant—workers.htm.
	The Home Office also provides information to workers from EU accession countries. Nationals of the new member states (except Cyprus and Malta) working in the UK are subject to the worker registration scheme. When subject to the scheme, they need to register with the Home Office if they plan to work for more than one month for an employer in the UK.

Lord Bach: Defra has policy responsibility for flood risk management in England, funds most of the Environment Agency's flood related work and grant aids individual projects undertaken by local authorities and internal drainage boards. The programme to manage risk is driven by these operating authorities; Defra does not build defences, nor direct the authorities on which specific projects to undertake.
	We understand the Environment Agency is planning works at Jaywick (beach recharge), Great Wakering (improvement to sea wall), Canvey Island (drainage improvements) and Battlesbridge (improvements to estuary wall); and that Southend Borough Council has started work to improve defences along the south and north-east frontages of Two Tree Island.

Lord Morris of Manchester: asked Her Majesty's Government:
	What is their response to the Chairman of the Haemophilia Society's recent representations to the Department of Health regarding sustained funding for provision of clotting factors; and whether they will confirm their commitment to recombinant treatment for all haemophilia patients in the current decade and beyond.

Lord Warner: We are aware of one study published on a pneumococcal-meningococcal combined vaccine (Buttery JP, Riddell A, McVernon J, Chantler T, Lane L, Bowen-Morris J, Diggle L, Morris R, Harnden A, Lockhart S, Pollard A), Cartwright K, Moxon ER. "Immunogenicity and safety of a combination pneumococcal-meningococcal vaccine in infants: a randomized controlled trial". Journal of American Medical Association. 2005 Apr 13;293(14):1751-8).
	The authors compared the immune response of children given the combined pneumococcal-meningococcal vaccine at two, three and four months of age to giving the vaccines separately. The immune response to the meningococcal component of the combined vaccine was lower when compared to the response to the meningococcal vaccine given separately. There was also evidence that the combined pneumococcal-meningococcal vaccine may have reduced the immune response to other vaccines given at the same time.